As computing models change, so too do the demands on storage. Distributed and virtualized systems introduce new vulnerabilities, assumptions, and performance requirements on disks...
Kevin R. B. Butler, Stephen E. McLaughlin, Patrick...
- Internet is a place nowadays where interoperating services are offered which can be integrated or mashed up in order to fulfill user demands. This paper proposes a way to offer v...
Pedro Rodriguez, Daniel Gallego, Javier Cervino, F...
In the BlueView project, digital library services are developed and partially implemented based on the architecture of virtual document servers. Using standard tools like fulltext...
Andreas Heuer, Holger Meyer, Beate Porst, Patrick ...
We describe the commercial application of agents to the handling of catalogue and stock-control for the selling of books on the internet. The primary characteristic of the target ...
Caches enhance the performance of multiprocessors by reducing network trac and average memory access latency. However, cache-based systems must address the problem of cache coher...